The Urban Leaders Retreat Tokyo 2025 explored how Tokyo has evolved into one of the world’s most resilient, efficient, and livable megacities by integrating transit-oriented development (TOD), vertical mixed-use urbanism, and people-first planning.
Episode-1 will focus on rethinking high density housing. Our guests will be Moshe Safdie, founder of Cambridge, USA based Safdie Architects, and Ma Yansong , founder of Beijing and Los Angeles-based MAD architects. Safdie changed how the world thinks about high density housing with Habitat, a pavilion for Montreal’s Expo 67 that incorporated prefabricated construction and public and private outdoor spaces into a highly intricate multifamily residence. He’s recently built new Habitat projects in Singapore, China, and Sri Lanka. Yansong is inspired by the ideals of “Shanshui City,” which entails harmonizing nature , the urban landscape, and society in novel ways through architecture. He a has explored typological alternatives for urban housing, like hybrid urban courtyard concepts and high density vertical villages.
The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, founder of think do tank The Urban Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents.
ArchDaily is the main media partner on this series.
We will be speaking to visionary urbanist Enrique Penalosa who was most recently the mayor of Bogota. Hosted by Elsa D’Silva,CEO, Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) & Prathima Manohar , Founder of The Urban Vision.
Our annual Urban Leaders Retreat took place in Paris between Oct 14th -17th.
Paris, in a way, needs no introduction.
We all have our own mythical versions of this city. But the visit opened our eyes to a large range of innovations in development , financing and design.
Closing Luncheon at the Musée d’Orsay
Reimagining the city from a Woman’s Perspective
We are excited to release this primer on Women Friendly cities at the UN Urban Thinkers Campus in Mumbai today. This forum is in Collaboration with Safe City at DICE Districts ISDI ACE along with DevelopmatriX , U.S. Consulate General Mumbai , BMW Foundation , Herbert Quandt and Swedish Institute
A city designed to make women, children, vulnerable communities or elderly safe is a great city for all.This primer aims to highlight urban design , policy strategies & citizen actions that can make for a more inclusive & safe urban environment for women. Let us know what you think. We hope this to be a set of principles that will continue to evolve with citizen inputs.
This campaign is in collaboration with Safe City , a NGO in Mumbai. This initiative is supported by Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law’s Collaboration Grants Initiative as part of the Omidyar Network Leadership Forum.
Safe City For Women Primer
